| The Sephardic Frontier: The @quot;Reconquista@quot; and the Jewish Community in Medieval Iberia Subjects: Jews -- Spain -- History -- To 1500; Jews -- Portugal -- History -- To 1500; Spain -- Ethnic relations -- History; Portugal -- Ethnic relations -- History; Spain -- History -- 711–1516; Portugal -- History -- To 1385; Reveals a fluid, often volatile society that transcended religious boundaries and attracted Jewish colonists from throughout the peninsula and beyond. Jonathan Ray is the Samuel Eig Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies in the Theology Department at Georgetown University. |